Breath of the Wild 2’s final name might be too spoiled, says Nintendo

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E3 2021 will take place from June 12th to 15th as a newly designed, completely virtual online event. Nintendo, Xbox, Bethesda, Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco, Ubisoft, Capcom, and others will be delivering new video game announcements, trailers, release dates, and more.

Nintendo gave fans a new look at the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Tuesday, but the company obviously isn’t ready to give us the final name for next year’s game. It still calls it “the sequel to” The legend of Zelda

: Breath of the Wild”In an official capacity. That’s because, according to Nintendo, the title could reveal too much about what will happen during Link and Zelda’s next adventure.

Bill Trinen, senior product marketing manager at Nintendo of America, said in an interview with IGN

that fans “just have to stick with it” to get the final name, underscoring the importance of the full title of the next Zelda game.

“Those subtitles … they’re starting to give little clues about what might happen,” Trinen told IGN. In other words, you can speculate about what’s going on with Link’s arm and where it’s going for the next year Breath of the wild episode Really takes place in the complex Zelda timeline.

Of course, Nintendo has a tradition of being cautious about the plot, settings, and titles of The Legend of Zelda series. The company also has a reputation for showing off its Zelda games very early on, often with no gameplay details or full titles. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto gave us ours First sight The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

back at E3 2009, with some memorable concept art with Link and Fi. It wasn’t until 2010 that we got the final name and gameplay of this game. Skyward Sword arrived a year later in 2011.

Nintendo had a similar setup too Breath of the wild. Series producer Eiji Aonuma first spoke about Nintendo’s plan, “Rethink Zelda’s concepts“Back in 2013. Then, in 2014, we got the first gameplay footage of the open-world Zelda concept. But it wasn’t until 2016 that Nintendo revealed the title. Breath of the wild.

All of this means that this goes without saying when it comes to new additions to the main line of the Zelda range. However, Nintendo Likewise has a habit of missing out on its Zelda release windows, so when Nintendo said it was “aiming for launch” [the sequel to Breath of the Wild] for Nintendo Switch in 2022 ”, factor this into your expectations for the next year.